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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Tuesday’s Thoughts

We’re
having some lovely late summer weather, blue skies, gentle breezes, cold
nights, warm sunny days in the 70’s; just perfect!When the afternoon begins to wind down and
the sun is slanting, deepening the shadows by dinner time I’d like to go sit outside
and watch the day go to sleep while sipping some spiced cider or mulled
wine.Oh how I would love to be that
person!Alas, that is not how my days
end.I am, instead, inside my
house.Feeding and bathing Hillary,
making dinner, packing lunches for the next day and taking care of the
dishes.Such is my lot in life, right
now anyway.One day before the days are
too short and too cold I’m going to be that person.I’m going to just treat myself and put
everything on hold or get someone else to do some of it so I can try that
person on for size.It’s nice once in a
while to step into different shoes for a bit and see how they fit.

I’ve been
making mental notes about things that need to be done outside and the first
thing on the list is remove the hanging baskets as the flowers have died and it’s
beginning to look like nobody lives here from the street.The flowers came back nicely the end of July
once the hottest weather broke.The
potted vegetable plants didn’t produce this year, but they were still nice to
look at and as long as they are alive there is hope that something will
appear.The flower garden we tried to
plant along the driveway was overtaken by some aggressive weeds.We may need to think about some landscape
fabric or perhaps newspapers under the mulch next spring.

We gave Hillary
a very nice 21st birthday party at a local restaurant.We bought Mylar balloons and tied them in
twos using plastic bead necklaces as weights.Those balloons are so festive and Hillary loves them.Now they’re home with us and when the air
stirs and they knock together it sounds like someone is walking through the
house—kind of creepy when I’m here alone.Perhaps I’ve watched too many crime dramas.

That’s
probably enough thinking for a Tuesday evening.After all, I’m still trying to recover from Monday.Nothing special happened Monday, it was just
Monday.